Leading postwar German writer whose politics and prose found favor with a number of directors of the New German Cinema. First adapted to the screen by the team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danielle Huillet in the mid-1960s, the best known film from Boll is Volker Schlondorff and Margarethe von Trotta's "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum" (1975)--subsequently made into the American network TV movie "The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck" (1984).He adapted two of his own novels; "Ansichten Eines Clowns" (1975) and "Group Portrait with Lady" (1977) and wrote the fiction segments for the otherwise documentary "War and Peace" (1982; co-directed by, among others, Schlondorff and ALexander Kluge). Boll was a co-director of the oft-discussed collective-documentary-protest film "Germany in Autumn" (1978).

Leading postwar German writer whose politics and prose found favor with a number of directors of the New German Cinema. First adapted to the screen by the team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danielle Huillet in the mid-1960s, the best known film from Boll is Volker Schlondorff and Margarethe von Trotta's "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum" (1975)--subsequently made into the American network TV movie "The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck" (1984).

He adapted two of his own novels; "Ansichten Eines Clowns" (1975) and "Group Portrait with Lady" (1977) and wrote the fiction segments for the otherwise documentary "War and Peace" (1982; co-directed by, among others, Schlondorff and ALexander Kluge). Boll was a co-director of the oft-discussed collective-documentary-protest film "Germany in Autumn" (1978).